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Every living thing : man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys

Author: Rob R Dunn; Edward O Wilson
Publisher: New York : Collins, ©2009.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today's attempts to find life in space.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Rob R Dunn; Edward O Wilson
ISBN: 9780061430305 0061430307
OCLC Number: 232977206
Notes: "Smithsonian Books." Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-264) and index.
Description: xiv, 272 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Beginnings. What we all used to know. Common names. The invisible world -- Fogging (the tree of life). The apostles. Finding everything. Finding an ant-riding beetle -- Roots. Dividing the cell. Grafting the tree of life. Symbiotic cells on the seafloor. Origin stories -- Other worlds. Looking out. To squeeze life from a stone. The wrong elephant? What remains.
Responsibility: Rob R. Dunn ; preface by E.O. Wilson.

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Traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today's attempts to find life in space.

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